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Grants & Fundraising Overview
Category: Grants and Fundraising
Fundraising, including grants, can provide critical funds to enable schools to offer additional programs, purchase needed equipment, and support general operations. Hundreds of California’s charter schools have successfully implemented a variety of fundraising activities, ranging from small bake sales to large-scale capital campaign efforts. Fundraising projects can be time consuming and labor-intensive. To ensure successful implementation, it is important to have a clear fundraising plan...
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Charter School Fundraising Essentials: Implementing a Successful Capital Campaigns
Category: Grants and Fundraising
by Stephanie Schwuchow, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Fall 2008 edition of Charter Currents. Interested in raising $100,000 or more for your school? Dozens of charter schools across the country have successfully implemented capital campaigns to raise millions of dollars for their schools’ facilities, equipment and other large financial needs. Unlike other fundraising campaigns, capital campaigns are specifically designed to address a significant,...
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State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program – Application Deadline: April 20th
Category: Grants and Fundraising
by Eric Premack, Charter Schools Development Center. Posted on 03/29/2010 Overview The State Charter School Facilities Incentive Grants Program is a federally-funded, state-administered facility funding program. Funds can be applied toward a charter school's cost of rent, lease, mortgage or debt service payments for existing or new facilities. Funds can also be applied toward the purchase, design and construction costs of acquiring land and constructing or renovating a...
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Strategies for Effective Individual Donor Campaigns
Category: Grants and Fundraising
by Stephanie Schwuchow, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Winter 2006 edition of Charter Currents. Many California charter schools seek outside funding to supplement ‘guaranteed’ general purpose and categorical block grant funds. Among the most common additional source of funds are foundation and government grant funding, but these sources often requiring long-term relationship building and burdensome amounts of paperwork. There are several alternate fundraising methods,...
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Eight Steps to Planning a Successful Fundraising Event
Category: Grants and Fundraising
by Stephanie Schwuchow, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Fall 2006 edition of Charter Currents. Overview In past issues of Charter Currents, we detailed various guidelines to successfully implement an individual donor campaign and a direct mail campaign. This article will focus on special events, such as fundraising dinners, auctions, or student performances, and will outline specific planning and implementation guidelines to ensure a successful event. Step...
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Implementing an Effective Direct Mail Campaign
Category: Grants and Fundraising
by Stephanie Schwuchow, Charter Schools Development Center. Originally published in the Spring 2006 edition of Charter Currents. In our last issue of Charter Currents, we reviewed the value of individual donors and various guidelines to successfully implement an individual donor campaign. As part of a series of fundraising topics, this article will focus on direct mail, the most common method used to solicit individual donors, and will...
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